“‘This Was Not 9/11’: Sanders Says Trump Had No Right to Act Alone”

CNN HOST AMANPOUR: “You are going into a vote on a very important matter, which is Congress‘s obligations. And constitutional duties regarding war powers and approving and discussing these kinds of things. So what do you think is going to happen in this vote?”

SEN SANDERS: “Look, here is the issue in the Constitution of the United States. It is the Congress that has the authority to declare war. The president. This was not an emergency.

This was not a situation like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Nobody attacked the United States. This was a premeditated effort that probably planned it for months. The Congress not only was not did not give authorization for this act, they didn‘t even know about it. So this is a president acting unilaterally in violation of the Constitution and the rule of law.”

What worries me very much, Christiane, is if you have a president who thinks that he can simply invade another country, you‘re giving a green light and a justification for any nation, any terrorist organization in the world to do the same.

And that‘s a big deal. And what Trump is basically saying is, look, I am powerful. I can do whatever I want if I want Venezuela‘s oil, I‘m going to get Venezuela‘s oil. And what that does, I think, is make the world more unstable.

It gives it a justification for Putin. How are you going to criticize Putin for his invasion of Ukraine? What do you have to say for China? China? If China involves gets involved in military adventurism or any other country?

So it is that to me is the most dangerous aspect of what Trump has done. Unleashing anarchy around the world, saying that any country on earth, you can do whatever you want, undermining the international organizations.”
Source: The Amanpour Hour – CNN